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i like to share the following poem:
reign of terror
These days the reign of terror,
seems to be all there is on peoples minds.
Is it nice to live in a world where
we turn eachother in to victims?
Is it nice to give in to acts of terror,
towards those you condemn utterly,
for doing just that?
Is that the world you want to live in,
or is there another world being revealed
in your heart?
A world of mercy where we are equally human.
A world where we overcome our differences,
by listening to our heart.
A world dreamed of by the honorable
Martin Luther King.
Who was an example to many people,
of how we could live our lives as well.
Boombeing Ruerd
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| Spiritual dimensions of earth |
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Hello dear people,
I have a dream i'd like to share with you It came to me when i was pondering about the spirtual dimensions of my home town since someone gave me an idea about it i shared frequently.
And suddenly it hit me as i explored what i saw as the spirtual dimensions of other places i work.
Why not create a network like wikipedia called spirtual dimensions of earth where we can all contribute and share the spirtual dimension of every place, town, village and city on earth.
Since i won't be able to pull this of all by myself, i don't have the time and resources needed i'm looking for strategic partners whod like to join in whats just an idea about one global database where whe make all our wisdom available to e3veryone who wants to parttake in this huge endeauvor.
My idea is that anyone could contribute and share in the spiritual dimension of the place he/she lives or spent time that he/she wants to share with the world from a poem, or a song or a great story about the wisdom of the earth and all its inhabitants that could enable people to evolve beyond the obvious setting things in motion that creates a bridge between people all around the world.
Who thinks this is worth pursuing gathering all this wisdom and making it available to everryone like for example wikipedia in an open exchange?
Soulgreet from Sint Nicolaasga
Boombeing Ruerd
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I have spent most of my adult life helping people see better in the physical world through the practice of Optometry. However in the last few years I find myself being pushed from some unknown place to help people "see better" in a different way. I am now writing (blog and book) to share a particular perspective about religious belief (not any particular belief, but about the process of belief in general) that should help increase religious tolerance in the world. Though this is not a topic I could ever have pictured myself choosing in my younger days, at this time I can hardly imagine anything more important that I might do.
What I need is stories of people either leaving the religion of their upbringing or choosing a different type of faith from what they were brought up with. Your real name is not required but if your story fits what I am looking for, I will want to speak with you by phone to further clarify the details.
Please send me your story and/or visit me at BeliefStagesandGrowth.com.
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| McLean, Virginia, United States |
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Web Link: BeliefStagesandGrowth.com |
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| Pollution Solution |
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This letter is a suggestion for a systematic change to help the planets environment. If the following method was used, we would drastically cut pollution all the while benefiting in other areas of our lives.
We should promote employers (just like when the internet was promoted to businesses) to create CD's and Internet sites offering their specific and full training for every job position within their company. Companies could program simulators, company manuals, or anything else that they see as an advantages tool for training into the program. They could also include testing that would score and chronologically date the results of each person who completes training, giving the employer the ability to make a more educated, confident, unbiased decision on who will be their next hires, rather then now only being able to guess between two of the same schooling degrees or related work experience, all the while trying to decide whether they believe someone will be capable of performing the job applied for. Importantly the employers would only offer their TRAINING in this new way, LOCALLY. They should also place their training in local school’s and libraries (maybe this could become part of the schools curriculum and truly fine tune early decisions while creating ambition) and we could ask companies to hire from this new method their local students, creating local employees. This will be a fair hiring as all cities will offer the same training method from their local companies. This will nicely serve the supply and demand of society as it is needed, as opposed to schools focusing on either academic scholars or trade scholars and in turn over filling one or the other into unemployment. The current method has people filing bankruptcy and increasing the national debt as they lack the ability to pay their student loans or other loans as a result of the over swamped workforce within their professional training. Where else can they turn immediately to but over filled entry level positions in retail, factories, or unemployment and around again, all the while trying to train into another career field.
By this new method employers will benefit by gaining the most qualified pre-trained employees on demand as needed, who will know exactly what their doing and what the company expects from them upon hire. The companies will have employees who would best represent, and ambitiously drive them into the future. Even if an employee quits, another employee just as trained is at their calling. Companies will not be paying to train someone who for example decides soon after that they are not really interested in the job, and either leaves or stays on at the employers expense, because of their financial position and inability to train for a job that suites them while supporting themselves or a family as well. The employers training exposed for other companies to learn from as well as to learn from other companies, propelling society and technology expediently forward and possibly cause a requirement for a second common work shift other then just a nine to five.
With this new method, we could have happy striving talented employees who settle into what truly is the best job position for them and their natural talents at that time in their life, instead of making a pre-mature blind decision in high school which doesn’t offer much for the ability to change professions later down the road, should the students have made the wrong decision, or by just being human, become bored and want a change in their life. This should also help avoid people who have been more employed in their lives, that leave their jobs (for whatever reason) from taking entry level jobs and over flooding those positions forcing more onto unemployment in the current model. This new model will enable entry level employees to reach for more advanced jobs, setting an equal working field, rather then being locked out of the workforce into unemployment by competing against more experienced people who’s resumes appear more advanced, even if unrelated to the applied for position.
With this new method people would then have the freedom and ability to move around and settle into what is the best decision for them where they see fit. This method will remove obstacles for people whether it's a learning disability, long hours at their current job, raising a family, poor past schooling, inability to fund a change etc. etc. With this new method people will be able to try different jobs before they actually fully train and apply. They can complete training at their own speed as there is no deadline. Schools currently expect a year by year success or failure which does not incorporate individual life differences. Students learn when they are interested in something that is meaningful and interesting to them.
This method will create real optimistic futures for young and old, deter crime by giving people the immediate obtainable ability to progress out of poverty by choice. Because these jobs will hire locally, this inadvertently will be helping the air quality and everything linked to it by stopping commutes to other cities. You know those cars we see on television every morning and evening with employees commuting as a result of a break between education and employment? This method will simply take those cars off the road. By working locally employees will have more time in their day, and less stress from waiting in traffic, which I'm sure would make everyone very happy, which could reflect in their work.
This method will drastically cut running times per vehicle per day (Ex: approx.1 hour and 40 minutes per vehicle per day, for a vehicle traveling from Oshawa, ON to Toronto, ON or even more as time passes.). We will consume far less fuel and emit far less pollution into the air. This method should also help drop the insurance rates as a result of less traffic causing less collisions and again less fuel per vehicle pumped into the atmosphere because one person who has an accident causes hours of traffic build up and pollution from every other vehicle. We will consume less oil in oil changes, less tire wear and tire disposal, etc. etc. This will now open highways for the increasing commercial demand, our bloodline, and speed up travel times, while increasing truck driver safety by allowing drivers to make more use of their log book times. This will speed up our economy and reflect in the need to employ. This should also balance nicely with the increasing population and employment demand. With increasing population comes increased volume of vehicles on the road, so you can see that emission standards do very little, and take a very long time to settle a 2008 standard into the entire fleet on the road. This will cut down the need to expand the width of our roads that only caters to more traffic, smog and costs today.
The government will benefit from less people on assistance, less schooling paid out, increased tax income, and the quality of life changes reflected back to that government and the people. They will benefit from a decreasing national debt and profit to reinvest into the province and hopefully the country. Cities will be expanding and growing everywhere, instead of just expanding the perimeter of a large city (because of commuters) increasing traffic and pollution problems along with everything else discussed and more. According to the WWF, as a result of the greenhouse effect caused by pollution, we are melting the polar ice caps and as a result, the polar bears are drowning, not to mention a whole lot of other problem demanding our attention. The damage can only become expediently worse if we don’t make changes today. There needs to be more responsibility on the employers for our planets environment. The current method of hiring is harmful to our planet and is having a devastating effect on the bigger picture for everyone.
We truly need the governments to unite and then unite with the employers, and the employers to unite with the Board of Education for local training and to a new division of the Ministry of Transportation to monitor and regulate traffic flow by by suggestion while all are in contact with the Ministry of Environment who will focus the system on whats best for the planet. This union of parties needs to actively communicate as one, as they all play vital roles in our society. If we just tweak this gap between education and employment, our weak link in our chain will disappear and we will rid ourselves from the roots of a lot of other problems that extend from our current system. We need to do our own part in working locally if at all possible. We should use public transportation until this method has evolved.
People who can control their futures become happy and hopeful, so lets give them the power to change their lives themselves and benefit all of the planet doing so. What is our alternative? This solution only asks for your cooperation. You can change the future for your family and your families family today! They are depending on us. Lets lead by example! If it doesn't start with us, then who is qualified? This may be a problem of who is willing to change in light of a well known problem. Will you?
Feel free to respond to me on my Windows Live Space...
Dale
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| Oshawa, Ontario, Canada |
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Web Link: http://codykins2.spaces.live.com/ |
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| Overview of the portals |
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Dear community members,
I would like to find again all Overviews of Portals (1-7) which I saw before on the website, but cannot find it anymore. Can someone help me to find it, please?
Thank you,
V
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interGen
an intergenerational collaboration for co-creating a brilliant world
This is an oppurtunity to collaborate in a special gathering with activists, healers, and visionaries from multiple generations coming together for open hearted communication and radical exploration of solutions to global issues.
Dec 7-9 2007 Meditation Mount, Ojai CA
A weekend of high vibe food, connection, intense nature and a safe space to co-create world solutions.
What is interGen?
Its a new term, short for inter-generational, signifying the joining of peoples from multiple generations. This intergenerational collaboration will be an open, compassionate process modelling the ability to collectively hold a multiple of viewpoints and paradigms through circle discussion groups, heart storming, and experiential exercises.
If we gather multiple generations in one magnificent location, open to our shared brilliance and release set pattern so we breathe as one, we might awaken minds and enliven hearts to transform society. Wanna play?
Why is an intergenerational dialogue necessary?
Every generation has something crucial to add to the conversation. This dialogue acknowledges the wisdom inherent in all of us.
$300-$400 sliding scale including meals and shared accomodations. For more information and registration please visit
www.meditation.com/intergen
808 646 5508
Participants in this dialogue include Gordon Davidson from the Center for Visionary Leadership and James Odea, president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences.
A project of the Intergen Focus group, The Ojai Foundation and Meditation Mount.
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What are the needs of each generation?
How do the generations generally relate to each other in our society?
How can we best design our social structures to meet the needs of each generation, and to help us to relate in the most healthy intergenerational way?
What are the stereotypes we have of each generation in our culture?
How can we best move past these stereotypes?
What is the new paradigm?
What has each of the past generations done to build the 'new paradigm' ?- a healthier, more conscious, more peaceful, more sustainable, more socially just, more creative, more vibrant world?
How well has the 'torch' of building the new paradigm been passed from each generation to the next?
How have the conditions for building a new paradigm changed from generation to generation.
Whom should be mentoring whom in our culture? The elders mentoring the youth? The old soul mentoring the younger soul? The person in the 'new paradigm' mentoring the one in the 'old paradigm'?
meditation.com/intergen
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| Exploring the potential for global environmental collapse and accelerated human evolution. |
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From One Planet, One Life's home page:
"It is time to seperate ourselves from the fooling ways of the material mindset. It has brought war, suffering, inequality, greed, and hatred for many millennia. Mankind has finally reached the edges of the Earth and have filled the world. Though material pursuit has brought comfort and pleasure to much of mankind, the wisdom needed to control its destructive power has yet to be realized by the human family.
It is time to evolve past the limitations of a strict material philosophy and guide a wakening spirit to the hearts of mankind. The marriage of an awakened spirit and a material plane that is reaching its pinnacle belies the coming age. This awakening spirit is here. Silently waiting for our call. It is not something that will thrust itself upon ourselves, but instead requires a steadfast pursuit by the adventurers of the world. It is a new humanity that is bubbling up like islands in the sea, soon to be united as a continent in the coming world."
The joining of like spirit is happening. First a couple friends, then some small groups, then an internet connected community, and finally a global influence.
Visit us at One Planet, One Life & The Sixth Mass Extinction - Exploring the Potential For Global Environmental Collapse and Accelerated Human Evolution.
Will Adams
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We are stepping forward into our conscious evolution..... and it is helpful to have community support in this endeavor. Is there anyone in the NE Ohio region who wishes to co-create a supportive network together? Please email me at breethedeep@hotmail.com if so. Many Blessings.......Td
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| Evolutionary Spirituality - A Talk by What Is Enlightenment? magazine Executive Editor, Carter Phipps, Wed 13 June, Cambridge |
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Wednesday, June 13, 2007, 7:30pm.
What is Enlightenment? magazine presents:
Evolutionary Spirituality—Exploring the Future of the Spiritual Impulse.
A talk with Carter Phipps.
Join Carter Phipps, the executive editor of What Is Enlightenment? magazine, for an exploration of how the evolutionary worldview is radically transforming and reshaping the way in which we understand the spiritual dimension of life. Phipps will lead participants through the history of this novel spiritual emergence and explore the profound impact it is already having on consciousness and culture today.
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Web Link: http://www.andrewcohen.org/boston/events.asp#carter |
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| Spiritual meaning of life challenges |
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If the moderators will kindly permit a new book announcement, I would like to tell people about a spirituality book I’ve written and recently published that may be of interest and service.
Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth? explores the premise that we are all eternal souls who plan our lives, including our greatest challenges, before we’re born for purposes of spiritual growth.
The book contains ten true stories of people who planned physical illness, having handicapped children, deafness, blindness, drug addiction, alcoholism, losing a loved one, and severe accidents.
The information about their pre-birth plans was obtained by four very gifted mediums and channels, including one who has the ability both to see and to hear the conversations we have with one another before we’re born. The book therefore contains the actual conversations people had with their future parents, children, spouses, friends, and other loved ones when they planned these challenges.
As readers come to understand that they themselves planned many of their challenges, suffering that once seemed purposeless becomes imbued with deep meaning. Wisdom may be acquired in a more conscious manner; feelings of anger, guilt, blame, and victimization are replaced by acceptance, forgiveness, gratitude, and peace.
A free PDF with a large sample of the book is available on the About the Book page at www.CourageousSouls.com. People may also wish to read the reviews on Amazon.
The book may be ordered on the Courageous Souls web site or from Amazon, including Amazon Canada, UK, France, Germany, and Japan. It may also be ordered from any bookstore or library (in most countries) by providing them with the ISBN number (9780977679454).
Thank you for permitting me to post this message.
Kind regards,
Robert Schwartz
author, Courageous Souls: Do We Plan Our Life Challenges Before Birth?
www.CourageousSouls.com
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Web Link: http://www.CourageousSouls.com |
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| About Spirit |
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Every piece of the whole is the entire whole( the soul ). The idea of being a piece is false. We perceive pieces because we don't remember( re-member ) who we truly are. The one, unlike we believe of ourself, can do billions of operations at the same time. Since we are equal to the one we do this also. What is the term for this, superconscious. I wish for everyone that reads this to have truth and love( you do ). Individuated experiences of the single thing. One happening, One waking, One generator, Joy, and Self. All things are consciousness creating within itself, there is no seperation at home. Thankyou my soul
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| Enlightenment Tipping Point |
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Dearest Friends,
What if there were 1,000,000 Enlightened Beings in the World?
What if 1,000,000 people declared their recognition of the Absolute and dedicated themselves to the Awakening of all of humanity?
What if...... ?
It appears that we are at something of a crossroads. To some, it seems that we are virtually on the edge of an abyss, about to topple over into darkness and oblivion.
And yet, a great Truth is also rising. There are more and more people coming to a deep recognition of who they are as spiritual beings, as Consciousness itself. Millions of people around the world are inquiring deeply into the nature of Reality, into their own truth as Pure Awareness, into the Infinite Presence of Being.
Amidst the darkness, people are WAKING UP.
Teachers of spirituality and truth (of which there are thousands around the world in ALL traditions) are seeing that there is something of a global dark night of the soul, a period of introspection, and even depression, from which humanity is awakening to a new Reality, a new compassion, a new commitment to Enlightened Living.
The brilliant architect and visionary, Buckminster Fuller said, "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
And Mahatma Gandhi said, "Be the change you want to see in the world."
"One Million Awake" is dedicated to helping to create this change... to assist, nurture and document the awakening and compassionate commitment of 1,000,000 enlightened beings in the world. It is a non-profit organization offering people a chance to simply let us know (by sending an email) that either: "I AM" awake or "I DO" commit to the awakening of myself and humanity. And the very idea of One Million Awake is to spread the possibility of an Awakening Humanity. Each time an individual considers the concept of being Enlightened, or of an Enlightened Civilization, it affects the whole. We all move one step closer to that Reality.
The Vision of One Million Awake
Our Vision is to threefold:
1. To document and identify (via email) 1,000,000 people who are willing to declare their Awakening or their commitment to Awakening,
2. To give permission to people to recognize and declare their recognition of Awakening, and
3. To unlimitedly expand the idea of 1,000,000 Enlightened Beings around the world...allowing this idea to sink deeply into Awareness, creating and expanding the possibility within the minds of everyone, the possibility, plausibility, and inevitability of an Enlightened civilization. To create a tipping point that will actually result in an Enlightened Humanity!
It is our hope, our prayer, that you will assist in this endeavor, first, by visiting our website www.OneMillionAwake.com and sending us your email of "I AM" or "I DO" and also by sharing this idea with others. If you have a website, considering putting a link to www.OneMillionAwake.com. Send this email to friends, to the press, or other organizations that you think could make a difference. Enlightenment does not need to be something that only the few achieve. We CAN create a 'tipping point,' a hundredth monkey, an Enlightenment wave that will spread across the planet (and perhaps beyond).
With Infinite Love and Gratitude,
Aja
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Web Link: www.onemillionawake.com |
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| Bands of America |
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Bands of America (BOA) is a non-profit organization that hosts festivals and competitions for school music programs around the nation. Though marching band has its roots in military ensembles and has developed by performing regularly at football games, the medium has evolved into a dynamic and conciousness-building activity promoting creativity, focus, and community. Support BOA events with your presence and find yourself enjoying powerful music and observing the future of this human species in its adolescence and at its best.
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| Indianapolis, Indiana, United States |
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Web Link: www.bands.org |
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| Peace |
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Each of us has to find the peace within ourselves and also within everything and everyone we encounter in our lives here on this beautiful place we call EARTH. We as humanity have to realize this and share it with everyone and everything we encounter so that we can heighten humanity's consciousness.
Namiste
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